Entries drawn from collection & document descriptions
This collection contains the personal and legal papers of John Meredith Read, a Pennsylvania lawyer and state supreme court justice. The collection is housed in one document box and is divided into two categories: Correspondence and Legal and Financial Papers. The correspondence consists of...
Location: MC 2001.19
Subject: Business and Industry, Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life
Collection Inventory: 
mc2001.19.pdf
Representative Henry Augustus Philip Muhlenberg writes to John Meredith Read, an attorney in Philadelphia, about various political intrigues and comments on James Buchanan's election to the United States Senate. "I rejoice in the election of our friend Buchanan" and, as Muhlenberg explains, "he...
Location: I-SpahrB-1954-3
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
James Buchanan writes to John M. Read regarding candidates for the Pennsylvania gubernatorial election of 1844 as well as how legislation on slavery is increasing sectional tensions. "At the North we are totally ignorant of the deep, pervading & determined feeling of the South on this...
Location: MC 1998.10
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
Cora E. White thanks Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice John Meredith Read for an "unexpected and most generous present."
Location: I-Friends-1975-23
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
John W. Forney assures Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice John Meredith Read that he both values and respects his opinions. Mr. Forney then requests that Judge Read not make disputes within their political party public so that they may "keep [their] party united for the Presidential election,"...
Location: I-Friends-1972-2
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Mary F. Thomson writes to Judge John M. Read, asking him to visit her at home in Philadelphia.
Location: I-Friends-1975-21
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Mary F. Thomson writes to Judge John M. Read, asking him to deliver a note to the Sixth National Bank of Philadelphia.
Location: I-Friends-1975-21
Subject: Business and Industry
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Mary F. Thomson writes to Judge John M. Read, updating him on business and financial matters.
Location: I-Friends-1975-21
Subject: Business and Industry, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Mary F. Thomson writes to Judge John M. Read, appending a note about a business error.
Location: I-Friends-1975-21
Subject: Business and Industry, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Carrie M. Thomson writes to Judge John Meredith Read about her family.
Location: I-Friends-1975-20
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
John Wien Forney writes to Judge John M. Read to address his concerns about certain newspaper articles. Forney notes that "both Genl [Ulysses] Grant and Mr. [Schuyler] Colfax entirely approve the articles to which you so strongly object." Forney is editor of the Washington Chronicle and...
Location: I-Friends-1972-2
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Carrie M. Thomson writes to Judge John Meredith Read, stating that she is happy he traveled safely during a recent trip and that her family is well.
Location: I-Friends-1975-20
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Carrie M. Thomson writes to Judge John Meredith Read, updating him on the health of her mother, who is recovering from a cough.
Location: I-Friends-1975-20
Subject: Health and Medicine, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Carrie M. Thomson writes to Judge John Meredith Read about her family.
Location: I-Friends-1975-20
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
